britmet Posted September 10, 2011 Report Share Posted September 10, 2011 Winner of the first of this years 3 national USA speedway titles, the 'US Open' Championship, held at 'Champion Speedway', Owego NYS last weekend was Shawn 'Mad Dog' McConnell. He took his 4th US Open title by virtue of his lead on day 1 after day 2's event was rained off after just a few speedway heats. (Shawn McConnell 20, Dukie Ermolenko 19, Mikey Buman 18: had scores been accumulated McConnell would still have won the title.) McConnell sits out the American Touring Team's UK tour next month: the squad is Buman, Castro, Green, Novratil, Raines, Scopellite, Starks and leaves the day after the Costa Mesa National. On the West coast Costa Mesa run their own SRA 'US National Speedway Championship' on Oct.1st but the official FIM/AMA/USA-Speedway championship final is on the preceding day, Sept.30th at Auburn Ca. Billy Janiro is the current holder of both these titles, - see all past winners at http://speedwaychampions.com/USA.aspx The 2011 US LongTrack Speedway Championship held at Canton, Ohio has been won by Dan Weicht. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmet Posted October 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 (edited) . Over the weekend both the AMA (FIM-affiliated) and Costa Mesa's own SRA national titles were raced for in California, USA, but there was no conflict as to who is the USA Champion. Ex-Coventry Bee Billy Janiro took both titles with straight wins in all his heats, Semis and Finals at both Auburn's 'Fast Friday' race track and Costa Mesa the following evening. Janiro took a first-bend fall along with Dukie Ermolenko in the Friday Final but in the re-start there were no mistakes and just like in his heats he out-gated and was away. Charlie Venegas was also on both rostrums, being 3rd at Auburn and improving on that in Orange County, with another ex-Bee Brian Yarrow runner-up in the AMA competition and Buck Blair third in the SRA meeting. 'AMA/USA Speedway' National Chmpshp, Auburn Ca, 30.9.2011 1 Billy Janiro 2 Brian Yarrow 3 Charlie Venegas. SRA National Championship, Costa Mesa Ca, 1.10.2011 1 Billy Janiro 2 Charlie Venegas 3 - Buck Blair. Janiro has now taken 3 AMA and 4 SRA titles: all past and present US champions, - AMA, SRA, 'US Open', 'American Final' and 'Long Track Speedway' - , can be seen HERE. . Edited February 24, 2013 by britmet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmet Posted October 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 (edited) . Here's the Youtube video of Janiro winning the Final, followed by interviews, etc, with the finalists and with former champ Bobby Schwartz, still riding at 55! Edited October 5, 2011 by britmet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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